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Monthly Archives: March 2014
WHERE ARE YOU FROM?
I finally heard from my union rep on Wednesday, after leaving a nasty message on his answering service that morning. He told me to go ahead and file for unemployment, a little bit of advice I could have used … Continue reading
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Tagged being bilingual, chauvinism, ethnicity, jingoism, Love, part-time work, satisfaction, unemployment, what's important, writing
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LOOKING FOR GOD (in all the wrong places)
Last Tuesday night I went to an event called “Bughouse Spin,” at a place actually called the “Bughouse” in Bushwick. It’s basically people telling stories, “Spinning,” as denoted in the name of the event, and the theme for the … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, beauty, Bughouse Spin, God, lack of religion, Love, open-mindedness, powerlessness, religion, spirituality, tolerance, tolerance/intolerance
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WHAT TO WEAR TO YOUR OWN EXECUTION
Well, ok, it wasn’t an execution, just getting fired, but it sort of felt like that. I was summoned; I got a call Wednesday morning from some functionary at the union telling me to be at the management company’s headquarters … Continue reading
SPIRIT IN THE SKY
A few weeks ago, right after Maggie’s funeral and memorial in Hudson, my friend Bill asked me to write about it, but there were so many accounts in the newspapers and on line I felt that doing so would … Continue reading
THE GRYPHON
My first wife, whom shall remain nameless, (if you know you know, if you don’t it doesn’t matter) was obsessed with all things Welsh, despite her Swedish/Scots-Irish background. She had a Welsh flag she’d stolen from an ex-boyfriend; not really … Continue reading
BLOG TOUR STOPS HERE
BLOG TOUR STOPS HERE I was asked to participate in this blog tour by my friend, fellow writer and sometimes teacher Mary Beth Coudal. She’s had so many blogs I can’t even start to list them, (I loved her … Continue reading
TOUCH ME
Fire eater at Maggie’s memorial. I wrote this last week the morning of my suspension, I still thought I had a job. But I don’t want it to get lost, and … Continue reading
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Tagged affection, bonding, camaraderie, caressing, emotion, fahter-son relationships, Ft. Bragg, Hudson, hugging, Love, Maggie Estep's memorial, N.C., N.Y., Touch
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